Dick Polman: Will GOP learn from '13 elections?

6:29 PM,
Nov. 7, 2013

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Based on the election results in New Jersey and Virginia, the Republicans have stark choices going forward: They can nominate candidates with crossover appeal - and win. Or they can continue to nominate right-wing extremists - and lose.

Reality was evident Tuesday night in the numbers. Chris Christie, the landslide New Jersey gubernatorial winner, got 57 percent of women voters, 48 percent of Hispanic voters, 32 percent of Democratic voters, and 21 percent of black voters, because he didn't run for re-election as an extremist ideological warrior.